Monday, August 31, 2015

This country is becoming dangerously unhinged and it's not just the Republicans. The far left is following the steps of the Tea Party and radical leftism is growing in ways that are every bit as dangerous as the equally fascist right. From the growth of Black Lives Matter that is leading to innocent people, almost always white, getting beaten and killed, as well as cop deaths for no reason other than their uniform, to school lunches being served under the guide of "healthy," but aren't, to words such as "male" and "female" being from barred from classes. This has to stop. This country is tearing itself apart and I fear that very soon it will rip apart forever. We are becoming dangerously divided, to the point now where we are literally killing one another. This can't end well.
The most serious was the shooting of Deputy Darren Goforth in Harris County Texas as he was filling up his car. The suspect, Shannon J. Miles, was caught soon after with no obvious motive other than a black guy shot a white cop for racial reason. A special shout out to the PC news for continuing to describe this ass as "dark skinned," rather than black or even African American. I have Hispanic friends that could be described the same even thought they are NOT black. Have we become so super sensitive to race that we can no longer accurately describe someone? This is not how to run a newsroom!

Regular readers know I am no fan of the police having had less than stellar dealings with some over the years. However, I am also NOT for shooting random police just doing their job. BLM has to take some responsibility for this as their hate speech against the cops (and not without some reason) has led this loser to do the unthinkable. Now mind you had there been a nationwide push to get EVERY cop a camera, things like this might not be happening, or had BLM championed this worthy cause, things might be getting better. But instead the cops fight against cameras in their best interest and BLM continues to fight for the arrest of a man cleared by the courts and black superiority. We need and deserve better.
As do our kids. There is nationwide shortage going on right now over teachers and that has to do with horrific work conditions, lousy pay and physical dangers brought about by out of control students. No one in their right mind would ask for this. I recently talked with a teacher friend of mine who has been doing this for twenty years and she says she is burnt out and may make this her last year. She says the pay never goes up, her benefits and pension keeps shrinking, and the kids are monsters. One story I heard from a friend was of a teacher who was reprimanded for telling a student to shut up in class. When students have all the authority you know you have crossed through the looking glass.

In some states, reprimanding black people in school is frowned upon because of idiotic things like "micro-aggressions" and has led to a complete destruction of authority in which the kids know they can get away with anything, including beating teachers, and nothing will be done. What exactly does that teach our youth other than a complete lack of respect and sure fire way to prison?

Here's a link to a picture gallery of school lunches nationwide, unfairly being blamed on Michelle Obama, aka Obama and Obamacare rising costs:

Those are some sad lunches. The problem with the article isn't the terrible food our kids are being served, it's the fact that Michelle Obama is getting blamed for it. In not one picture do I see salad or vegetables of any sort, except for some green beans which appear to also be the only thing I would eat in any of the pictures. The facts are, school budgets have been cut by Republicans nationwide, causing schools to get creative with their food program. Think the Simpson's Lunch lady opening a box of cafeteria food in one episode that was labeled "Grade F meat, may contain circus animals."
Douchebags like Sam Brownback, Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal, two of which are actually running for president, have decreased funding for their schools for a combined amount that is over $200 million. Yeah, Obama is the problem here and his wife. Dicks!

It also doesn't help, that in something I am willing to bet few of you know, but we are literally serving out kids prison food. The same company that feeds a lot of our nations prisons also feed our kids all the way through college. I had the privilege of eating said food for years as my high school and first college I went to, along with a visit to friends at Syracuse University which used the same company way back when, and let me tell you the food was as close to inedible as it could be. I brown bagged it 99% of the time to keep from becoming anorexic.

It's is frightening to see that due to budget cuts, the food has gotten worse. Our kids deserve better.

Lastly, Our colleges have devolved from guardians of free speech to totalitarian dictatorships where the wrong word can cause you to flunk out. Washington College made headlines when it came out that certain teachers had banned words such as "illegal alien," "homosexual," and anything describing gender or race. Guilty parties would be subject to failing said classes. If I were a student, I would get a lawyer and sue the university stat because that kind of "do as I say" bull shouldn't fly anywhere in this country. Imagine a business trying this? They'd get sued so fast so why not colleges where students should have a free say in words that are NOT offensive to anybody but the hyper-sensitive?
Some are teaching about the mythical " white privilege" that only exist in militant black fantasy. I am white and let me tell you I have gotten ZERO help in my life from any institution or government program because of my race. On the other hand, I have witnessed first hand, minorities get all sots of privileges that white people cannot get such as scholarships, jobs and even higher salaries solely because they were a minority and usually a woman as well (two for one in quota speak). Why don't we talk about Black, Asian or Hispanic privilege because that also exists in far greater numbers than the trickles 99% of us white people get? It is true that if you are rich and white, the world is your oyster, but for the majority of us, we get nothing for being white so stop pretending that's true.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

The on-air shooter was a black racist (which do exist MTV) who was most certainly a mental case and exactly the kind of person who should have been locked up years ago. But because our mental health system is one of the worst on the planet, we have unchecked whack jobs walking among us and killing people with alarming regularity. We keep hearing how guns are the problem, conveniently ignoring the knives, hammers, baseball bats and other weapons that the mentally ill are also using to kill us with. The problem isn't guns. It's guns falling into the hands of people who shouldn't have them and on this the NRA is fully at fault. It's also psychotics being let to roam free without even the most rudimentary of supervision. Let's see those runner ups.
10)The "inevitable" candidates- I truly thought we were going to get Bush/Hillary with little chance of anyone else. But with the stellar rises of Trump and Sanders, that's not so sure anymore. Trump and Sanders are attracting tens of thousands while Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton struggle to fill a ballroom. A recent poll in Iowa has Sanders now only 7 points behind Hillary and he still leads by the same amount in NH. Worse for Hillary, the three words people identify her most with are dishonest, liar and untrustworthy. Ouch! Jeb Bush had three top advisers fired (or perhaps quit depending on who's telling the story) because his fundraising is dropping fast as his post debate performance, along with falling star Scott Walker, sucked. Bush is anywhere from second to sixth and Walker is seventh, behind such people as Cruz, Carson and Huckabee. Good Christ! Trump looks like he may get the nomination while the battle for the Democrats continues as minorities still support Hillary. Why guys? Do you like living in poverty because she will change nothing on that front? Wise up, stupids.

9)MA Health- I have a love hate relationship with this government group. I love them because without them I wouldn't have health care and would have been dead long before writing this column. I hate them because they seem to be staffed with the dumbest human beings on the face of the Earth. Twice, they have cancelled my insurance for no reason and, even though they were at fault, I had to spend weeks fixing it. Now, my subsidy check stopped being submitted into my bank account because I changed insurance groups and didn't tell them. Nevermind the fact, I have done this in the past with no problem. This time, some douche at the department decided to fuck me and never bothered to even inform me there WAS a problem into the money stopped. Thank God I had enough to cover expenses for the month because otherwise I would have been so screwed. Hopefully, I will have this all taken care of this week and won't have to worry about it anymore. Until they do it again that is.
8)Sigma Nu at Old Dominion- You have to wonder how some morons even get into college. This frat was suspended this week after hanging banners from their balcony that even the most brain damaged should have seen as trouble. They read things like "daughter drop off," Go ahead and drop Mom off, too," and "Rowdy and Fun. Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time." WTF? I know for a fact that every single college student has to sit through a sex embarrassment seminar before even getting on campus which these losers must have slept through. They do know college rape humor is NOT funny, especially in the hyper-sensitive times we live in and is 100% prevalent on college campus' nationwide? These guys will be lucky to not get expelled.

7)Dancing With Stars- I fucking HATE this show. Washed up C-list celebratards compete by dancing badly to some of the whitest versions of music ever heard. I'd rather go to a One Direction concert than sit through one minute of this. However, this week, they hit a new low when it was announced that confessed racist, Paula Deen,will be on. Can we let this waste of space go already? She is phony beyond words, we are talking Hillary Clinton/Dollar Creflo phony, and a certified racist. Take aside her trial, her attitude caught on tape and her admittance of holding parties with racist themes, should be enough to banish her from the airwaves forever. But nope, like Frankenstein, she keeps coming back. Boycott this show with this bitch on it. Me and my fiancee stopped watching the Chew when they kept having her on. As for DWTS, I never watched it anyway. Join me on that.

6)Pokemon Terrorist Attack- Proving my point that there are way too many psychos walking the planet, two utter idiots, Kevin Norton, 18, and James Stumbo, 27, were arrested in Boston this week after making on-line threats to attack the Pokemon Convention at the Hynes Center. They showed pictures of their guns on Facebook, threatened to kill certain people, and brought along a small arsenal in the trunk of their car. Needless to say, they are in real trouble as bragging about something before you do it is a surefire way to get arrested stat.
5)Jared Fogel- And the hits keep on coming for beleaguered former Subway spokesperson, Jared Fogel who is facing real prison time for statutory rape and kiddie porn and is also facing a bitter divorce and the loss of most of his money, just got hit with another blast that could get him an even longer sentence. Turns out his "charity," like most charities, was a complete fraud. Allegedly set up to help kids fight childhood obesity, forensic accountants discovered 60% was going to the head of the charity, now in jail on possession of kiddie porn as well, and another 28% unaccounted for. So a whopping 12% of the funds they raised went to people who need and the rest went elsewhere. How much you want to bet they tie that missing 28% to Jared? Rot in hell, douchebag.

4)Chris Christie- Fat Bastard keeps dropping in the polls as his ideas go splat seconds after exiting his mouth. His latest bon mot said that he wanted to pay teachers minimum wage plus "bonuses,"because they are way overpaid. Right. The average salary for a teacher in NJ is $37,000 and you want to pay them less? He does know there is a nationwide teacher shortage because of things like this right? And he's running for President? I'd rather see President Trump, President Cruz or President Carson rather than this dick.
3)Donald Trump- This guy is sucking all the oxygen out of the GOP race which is getting the establishment rightfully scared. However, even I was disturbed by how he treated a Univision reporter, throwing him out of a press conference because he refused to tell us how he would deport 11 million people. His attitude was a little racist, yet recent polls show Hispanics not exactly up in arms about it. This guy really is teflon.

2)Ashley Madison- This website is stuff on a rock after revelations about how much a con job this site was came out everywhere. Turns out, having a website devoted to secrecy which then loses those secrets, is not a viable business model. Even worse, people looking through the treasure trove of data discovered that 99% of the woman on the site were fake. Of 37 million subscribers, only 1200 women could be verified as real. OMG, that is funny. Ashley Madison was making up fake women to entice men to join, known as a honey pot, when in reality it was more fantasy than reality that anything was ever going to happen. The CEO stepped down this week with no successor named, signaling that this site is DOA. Good!
1)Vester Flangan- This ass is comprised of every trait I hate in humans. Racist toward white people and hyper-sensitive, combined with an explosive temper, made this guy exactly the kind of guy who should have been committed years ago, and the warning signs were all there, just like every other shooter of the last few decades. He got fired regularly for being a dick and a dangerous one at that. If this occurred back in the 70's, he would have been involuntarily committed and maybe gotten the help he needed (although more likely would have been warehoused and drugged within an inch of his life, thus the reason we have no mental health system anymore). Instead, this loon shot and killed two innocent people. I notice BLM characteristically silent because white live don't matter to those racists. All Lives matter, black, white and all in between. We're stronger together than apart so stop self segregating. The media of course blamed guns for the matter, ignoring the fact that every single shooter over the last few decades should have been in a mental home, like James Holmes and Adam Lanza, but lack of space and money prevented either from getting the help they needed until it was far too late. And how come Dylann Roof shoots black people and he's a dangerous racist while Flanagan is explained away as guns being the culprit and his racism ignored? MTV has been airing this video explaining why black people cannot be racist, which is stupid beyond words. I have black friends and let me tell you they see black racism every day and they are not happy about it. It exists. Deal with it. So congratulations Vester Flanagan, I am glad you died and I hope it is very, very warm where you are. You are indeed douchebag of the week.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

I can't write about anything depressing today so let's look back at the summer films filled with some blockbusters and a lot of bombs, some epically. The funny part is that a few of the biggest disasters should have been realized on the written page and NEVER been filmed in the first place. Everyone of the hits however were known long before their release which says that some in Hollywood do know what they are doing. Let's look at the best of the best first:
BEST OF SUMMER 2015:

5) AVENGERS; AGE OF ULTRON: While not nearly as good as last year's Marvel entries like Captain America 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy, Ultron was still better than a lot of stuff that came out this year. The main issues was the villain was kind of lame, the end of the movie was a lot like the first film and you could tell Marvel was demanding plot points be stuffed in regardless of whether they worked or not. However, Joss Whedon is still one of the best directors today and the cast is electric together. All in all, it was still a pretty good movie.

4)INSIDE OUT: Pixar strikes again with this touching, hilarious look at the different emotion that reside within all of us, particularly a tween girl who just moved to a strange city. Amy Poehler, Bill Hader and, especially, Lewis Black mine gold from this story which was one of the best movies of the year and has a real shot at a best picture nod. Pixar is run by people who understand movies.

3)MISSION IMPOSSIBLE:ROUGE NATION: Tom Cruise proves why he is the best box office draw on the planet with the action packed sequel that keep getting better like the Furious series is. Doing all his own stunts, eschewing CGI and relying on an excellent plot about an anti-IMF force intent on world domination, this film hit on all cylinders. This guy may be loony when it comes to religion but he knows how to pick the right scripts.

2)JURASSIC WORLD: Probably the greatest surprise as a no name director was hired to helm one of the most successful film series ever, even if the last two weren't that great. However, a winning script, Chris Pratt and CGI dinosaurs made this the biggest hit of the year. This was a real winner and like most blockbusters will get no love even though three of the five movies on my best of list should be up for best picture and probably won't in lieu of some small French movie about stale bagels during the Nazi invasion.
1)MAD MAX:FURY ROAD: No movie was more action packed and thrilling than the return of Mad Max, this time with Tom Hardy taking over for Mel Gibson. George Miller schooled younger directors with this sand drenched film that made you feel like you spent the day at the beach afterward, sand everywhere in every nook and cranny. A non-stop roller coaster that had little dialogue and an actual plot still, this film was brilliant. If you missed it in the theater, get it in DVD You won't be disappointed.

DISAPPOINTMENTS: There were films I liked but didn't do as well in the Box Office as hoped.

3)VACATION- Savaged by critics, this film was far funnier than many said. Yes, it wasn't Chevy Chase but it was still a hilarious look at a vacation gone wrong again. No matter how you look at it, it was far better than the last one Vegas Vacation.

2)AMERICAN ULTRA- Too violent for critics and the public apparently, plus sent to it's demise by having three films open all with the same target audience on the same weekend, this film died a painful death. That was too bad because this funny, action packed take on the Manchurian Candidate was pretty good. And say what you want about Kristen Stewart, she is turning into a real good actress and the camera loves her. Catch it on DVD when it comes out in, most likely, a few weeks.
1)TED 2- I loved this movie but it definitely didn't do as well as the first and makes another Ted movie unlikely. I know I was in the minority last year when A Million Ways to Die bombed and I loved that film too, but this one should have been a bigger hit. Hopefully, it will find new life on DVD.

BOMBS- There were a lot of movies that tanked this year and with good reason. I will admit I haven't seen any of these yet, but will when they come later and do not expect my opinion to change.

8)POLTERGEIST- STOP MAKING REMAKES OF CLASSIC MOVIES! They aren't, as remakes of films like Scarface, The Raid and Frankenstein are all on the horizon and there are a dozen more on top of that. Allegedly this film did so poorly they halted the remake of IT, like they were similar in any way, causing a talented director to leave and that project to be up in the air still. This was a terrible idea and I know it will be, like many on this list, on my worst of the year column.

7)MAN FROM UNCLE- If you are going to update a series here's a list of things not to do. One, don't pick a project few have seen. I've never seen one episode of this and Wild Wild West suffered from the exact same problem. And two, if you do go through with it, do not pick two people who cannot open a movie. Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill are not proven stars by any means and this film tanked because of it.

6)HITMAN:AGENT 47: See above for why this film tanked. The first one died because you hired some one who in no way looks like Hitman. So what did they do this time? Picked someone even worse with a terrible script to go along with it. This video game series is made for films and yet they messed it up twice now. Hire people who have actually played the game series before doing anymore of these, like that is actually going to happen.

5)RIKKI AND THE FLASH: Diablo Cody is one of the worst screenwriters of all time. Her Oscar for Juno is the biggest tragedy in the history of the awards and that includes picking Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan. Since then, she has written unwatchable drek like Young Adult and Jennifer's Body. This latest one was savaged by critics who rightfully called the screenplay trite and stupid, which I don't have to see to know. Stop hiring this woman who must have blown her way through Hollywood to keep working because her films suck hard. And what blackmail must they have used to get Meryl Streep to be in it?

4)ALOHA: Cameron Cruise has been a hit or miss director and here he really missed. Critics and Asians were pissed when he hired Emma Stone to play a woman who was part Asian. WTF? Yeah, she looks real oriental guys. The script wasn't any better from what I hear but the casting was the true tragedy here.

3)TOMORROWLAND: Another film which showed the George Clooney cannot open a big movie, this film also tanked hard, due in part to a confusing trailer and a stupid release date. Films that come out on Memorial Day don't do well for new pictures but are better suited for already established film franchises. This film got horrible reviews and should have been redone in pre-production instead of rushed out where it died a painful death.

2)TERMINATOR: GENESYS: Can we all agree that this film series should just end by now? We've suffered through several awful sequels and a less than stellar TV series. The last film was so bad I had to go to therapy to recover. This one was just sad even with the return of Arnold. Just stop and move on to fresher pastures.
1)FANTASTIC FOUR: No film did worse than this piece of garbage which stunk up every theater it was in. Using an untested director proved the nail in the coffin for this series which in it's fourth attempt proved to be the worst yet. The cast sucked, the film was boring and dark, and everyone seemed bored by all the whole thing which according to sources was what the director wanted. Who was to blame was placed on a director who became unhinged while directing and studio executives who mangled it from day one. This project was so bad Marvel stopped printing FF comics and pulled an animated series as well. Please sell this back to Marvel already because this is getting old as you have shown no idea what to do with this series. The amount of money this film will lose is staggering.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Lots of news happening right now, none more front and center then the live on air shooting of a reporter, the person being interviewed and the cameraman by a former reporter at the same station. Even stranger, not only did the shooting get caught on the cameraman's camera but also was filmed by the shooter himself. Worse, he posted it before shooting himself, fatally.
Vester Flanagan, a 41 year old reporter recently fired from station WDBJ in Virginia, which seemed to be par for the course as he was almost certainly mentally ill and full of pointless rage. He had to be forcibly removed from the building after losing it when he learned he was being fired for being "difficult." He had a long history of claiming racism when none existed and suing people over it. He held grudges against the two people he killed, the reporter for "racist" comments and the cameraman for reporting to HR after a single assignment with him. The latter I believe.

Is that we have come to? People now filming their own homicides? I guess it was only a matter of time but good Lord. At least this idiot is dead.

Of course, as the shooter was black and the victims white, All Lives Matter people were all over this and with good reason. Truth is, you are more likely to be a victim of crime by a black guy than any other race or sex. That is not racist but hard, cold facts. And a lot of black people are turning to videos to agree with it.
A lot of black people are getting mad at BLM for highlighting ONLY white on black crime which is in reality far less than black on white crime and astronomically lower than black on black crime. And people who live in these neighborhoods know it. White people aren't gunning down innocent children, they are doing it to themselves. And until that is addressed, life in the ghetto is going to get worse.

Meanwhile, the Dow is soaring today, as panic buying sets in. This is a bad sign as these kind of lopsided swings signify a real chance that the stock market may plunge huge next month. Don't believe me? Let's look at the past shall we. As of 3:23, the DOW is up 559 points. This is from Jim Quinn:

Six of the ten largest point gains in the history of the stock market
occurred between September 2008 and March 2009. That’s right. During one
of the greatest market collapses in history, the market soared by 5% to
11% in one day, six times. Here are the data points:

Do you think these factoids will be shared with the public today on the stock bubble networks? Not a chance.

Look familiar? This shows extreme volatility where panic buying and selling cause huge market swings until the bottom falls out. This is not a sign to sell stocks and invest in gold or other precious metals, but one should also be cautious and prepare to do just that if the market starts entering free fall territory.
Lastly, Chris Christie keeps proving why his numbers are sliding further and further south. Today, he proposed paying teachers minimum wage plus bonuses for every kid who does well, insuring our children will be taught by people who couldn't get a job a McDonald's. Fat Ass said that "teachers shouldn't be getting paid six figures to teach children," not realizing that few teachers make that and the average salary for a teacher in his own state is $37,000. I HATE Chris Christie and anyone who supports this tub of lard. His poll numbers suggest he is on life support and this idea won't win him many supporters who apparently are smarter than he is.

How bad is he doing? A SuperPac that was running anti-Christie ads disbanded this week after the head of the organization said the Governor was doing a far better job than they were by just speaking in public. Ouch. His latest poll numbers have him in 11th place and not gaining any ground. Hopefully, he'll take the hint and leave but considering how obese this loser is it doesn't seem as if he knows when to stop.
An Internet poll, while hardly scientific, had the top three candidates as Trump, Paul and Sanders and the bottom two Bush and Clinton. Color me not surprised. More on these two flaming out as their campaigns die a painful death. Neither are gaining support, more the opposite, as voters have had it with politics as usual. The revolution is upon us. Vote in the primaries to make sure of it and Sanders and Trump as the two best from either side and that shows how bad the GOP lost is if Trump is the best shot they have.

Monday, August 24, 2015

As I predicted quite accurately, the stock market sank like a stone this morning, dropping 1000 points before stock buybacks and the plunge protection team went into high gear raising the Dow almost into positive territory. Then of course reality set in and the Dow is dropping again 564 points down and dropping fast. I will post real time estimates as I finish. If there were any idiots who bought stock today thinking the worst was over and bargain hunting was available, they are certainly getting burned right now. By the time this article is written it is entirely possible all gains made up from the 1000 points loss, the worst in US history, may have been given back.
This is all happening for several reasons. One, the Chinese stock economy is imploding. The reforms they have made have been too little too late and 20% of their market has evaporated in just the last week. Their real estate holding s have been uber-shaky, think US 2007, and a crash was inevitable. And the Dow is now down 660 and dropping because of this.

There is also the fact that salaries are far too low to keep a consumer economy afloat and that is reflected by the collapse of the retail industry last month in which no one bought anything anywhere. People are starting to notice that companies like Sears, JC Penny, Kohl's and Macy's keep having their stock go up as the profits crater. This is the same thing the Chinese are doing with the exact same results. In other words this can only go on for so long.

Trillions of dollars have been wiped out and the increasing decline in oil shares may affect the derivative market and send banks who own them into a tailspin. Some investors are hitting the panic button today, with Gordon Brown's former economic adviser telling people the end is coming and they should stock up on water and food for when society collapses. This is not some fruitcake but a high level economic expert who helped guide the English economy.
Plunge protection team back at work as Dow now risen to 572. What a roller coaster ride. This is blatant attempt to change the last hour of the Dow and keep some illusion of stability. It will not be sucessful.

Meanwhile, two terrorist attacks were thwarted this weekend, one in Boston and one in Paris. The Paris attack on a train was committed by some Muslim extremist douchebag who made the mistake of trying to do this while several US Marines were on board. Guess who got his ass kicked? USA! USA! I have never been more proud of our armed services than this which showed bravery, self sacrifice and compassion, as they aided a injured passenger even as one of them was bleeding from a knife wound. Needless to say these heroes were congratulated by the French President, Obama and every single American in this country. The goodwill something like this commands cannot be underestimated and for once, this country looks like the one I want to live in, and not some vicious parody of it instead. We need more people like these three heroes: Tony Sandler, Spencer Stone, and Alex Skarlatos. The world needs more like them. My favorite part of this story is that the terrorist tried to say that he was only intent on robbing the train, but failed to come up with a good reason why he had eight extra magazines for his AK-47. This ass is going away forever.

Dow is dropping again, down 624 points. Ouch!
The Boston attack was the most laughable attack I have ever seen, and I mean that literally as I cannot stop giggling about even now. Two of the dumbest people on the face of this Earth brought a trunk load of guns to, wait for it, a Pokemon convention at the Hynes Center here in Boston which they threatened to shoot up on Facebook. They even took a picture of the guns they planned on using. Kevin Norton, 18 and James Stumbo, 27, were at first barred from entering after the plot was told to police and then arrested later at the hotel room when the cops realized guns were in the car with them. A lot of guns. Who wants to shoot up a Pokemon convention and why? These two brain powers are in a lot of trouble and they basically asked the police to arrest them. Stupid.

Dow is now down 662 and falling. How low will it go today? Stay tuned dear readers because we may be headed into uncharted territory. Wednesday's column will almost certainly be about our economic situation unless something else Earth shattering happens first.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Holy Crap this woman had a really bad time of it this week. Set aside the email scandal which is not going away any time soon and we also saw her campaign rather poorly, or as I would call it Martha Coakley style, while at the same time appearing bored with the whole process. If she is trying to lose support among just about everyone then she is doing a bang up job. It has gotten so bad that establishment Democrats are panicking that Bernie Sanders may get the nod and are begging Joe Biden to enter which would be the end for Hillary. Let's see those runner ups.
10)St. Louis Riots and the Police- What started as a cut and dried case has now boomeranged back upon the local police force who may have lied about the whole incident that led to new bouts of rioting. Mansur Bell-Bey, 18, was shot by police during a drug bust this week which led black people to riot even though Bell-Bay was said to be armed and shooting at them. Case closed right? Not so fast as the autopsy shows Bell-Bay was shot in the back. Now mind you that still doesn't absolve him from being shot legitimately, but as the cops are as trustworthy as Lex Luthor, no one believes them and with good reason. Why, pray tell are the local police NOT EQUIPPED WITH FUCKING CAMERAS BY NOW, IN ST. LOUIS OF ALL PLACES? This is getting ridiculous as body cameras should be on every cops body by now and those who scream about how to pay for it, it can come out of the salaries of the higher ups on local police forces who deserve some of the blame for this shit storm of continuous bad news, something that is making every cop out there, good or bad, far less safe. The police keep proving that they are not to be trusted and they keep reinforcing that among even in the whitest of communities. How long before people start fighting back in mass numbers? As for black people stop rioting every time something bad happens. You are ruining your own community and setting back black rights decades. Demand body cameras on all cops as a start for Black Lives Matter. Us white folks will back you on that.

9)Black Lives Matter- The way to win over people is through hearts and minds as well as laws. This group is failing on both fronts. They keep interrupting democrats, even though they are their best hope for regaining their communities, and pissing off non-black voters on the process. They refuse to have any concrete demands, like body cameras on all cops, and the ones they do have have are never going to happen. Here are the five they have on their site. One, the arrest of Darren Wilson is NEVER going to happen as the EVIDENCE says there was no crime. Much like the idiotic refusal to believe that Trayvon Martin deserved to die, as the evidence showed there as well, this group seems focused on all the cases of black deaths that were NOT racist. Where is the demands for the arrest in Tamir Rice's death? Or a Federal case brought against the cop who killed Eric Gardner? And those are just two of the black people who WERE killed by rouge cops. Instead you focus on two deaths that most of America accepts as justifiable. Their second demand is an end to "systematic Racism" in the police force. That won't happen until the black community fixes their own areas first. The most dangerous places in America are all majority black. Why is that? I have white projects right down the street from me. You know what the crime rate is there? Zero. Third, they want an end to military style weapons for local police. I agree with that whole heartedly. They want the Justice Department to release the names of all cops that have killed black people over the last five years which I believe could be done themselves with this thing called newspapers. My blog alone records a lot of these. That demand just seems lazy. Lastly, they want a decrease in law enforcement spending and use that money to help inner city areas. That's not going to happen as the crime rate in these areas is astronomically high and every time anyone does anything good in these areas, some idiots come along and burns it to the ground. Nowhere on their site do I see demands for cameras on every cop, an end to the drug war, calls for INCREASED police patrols which may help stop crime or any other idea that might actually work. I am also getting increasingly pissed that these guys call out the cops for every perceived slight, meanwhile a nine year old girl dies in FERGUSON, MO and not one fucking peep from BLM. So she doesn't matter because some black criminal did it and not a white cop. Who's racist now mother fucker!? This senseless violence has to stop on all sides and until BLM starts acknowledging this, I will look at them as no better than the KKK or the New Black Panthers.
8)North Korea- These infants are the biggest pussies on the face of this Earth. Their tried and true strategy is to scream bloody murder anytime something happens that doesn't go their way, threaten nuclear annihilation and then do absolutely nothing, as always. This is getting old fast as it has been going on now for decades. Let this poor excuse for a country starve already. This week after they wounded two SK soldiers on the DMZ with landmines that were not supposed to be there, they had a fit when they retaliated with loudspeakers propaganda blasted across the border. All of this led to new rounds of talks which is how this goes every single time. You guys need a new playbook because I have seen this movie one too many times.

7)Iran- If the Iran deal falls apart, they may be more to blame than the Republican party. Allegedly, there is a part of the Iran deal that lets them self police themselves at one particular nuclear site. If true, that is not acceptable as corporations self policing do a shit job so what makes us think that Iran would be any better. However, there is some debate as to whether the whole thing is a fake meant to help kill the deal. Either way though, Iran is attacking Israel with Syrian proxies near the Golan Heights. Israel has struck back at Syrian targets for the first time in years. I would like to use this as a defense against that common refrain that Iran never attacks anybody. They may not be doing directly but they are using proxy armies to fight their battles which is no better.

6)Donald Trump and his immigration policy- I can describe his plan in one word: laughable. Not only would it be expensive (at least $300 billion) it's impractical and could even lead to a civil war. Deporting 11 million people is not possible as it would collapse our economy. Just ask Alabama or Georgia how that worked out for them when they "ended" illegal immigration. Oh that's right, their farming areas went bankrupt overnight as no one was willing to work for three dollars an hour. He wants to build the Berlin Wall across Mexico which would be a PR nightmare and would just change how people get here, most likely under it. He has thrown red meat to both the far right and moderates, which is why he is so far ahead in the polls right now.
5)Scott Walker's health care plan- One word description: Retarded. Walker released his plan to overhaul Obamacare that if actually implemented would bankrupt the system quick. He plans to give people a block of money which would in increase the older you got. The problem is the amount he is talking about would only pay for half a years payment for insurance across the board. The rest would be covered out of pocket which means many would not even bother as it would be too expensive to own health insurance at that point, and without a risk pool to dip into, the whole system would go belly up. This is why dumb ass is sinking fast in the polls, down to three percent in some. Go away douchebag. Anyone supporting this ass is way too stupid to ever vote again. Stay home and watch Real Housewives or jerk off to your Bible collection. Just stay away from the voting booths. Please.

4)The Economy- The Dow bit it this week, losing more in two days than at any point in American history. Let that sink in as to how screwed we might be. Chinese stock slides are being blamed but the real reason is that we have fixed nothing since the last crisis and the numbers show it. Retail stores are hemorrhaging customers who have run out of money, yet stock buybacks are keeping their profits up, but that can only go on for so long and we may have hit that wall this week. We have had out first correction since 2011 and the pain may not end. If history is any indication, the stock market may slide a little bit more this week, skyrocket upward for a few weeks and then crash to Earth taking a lot of investors with them. Some are saying a 5000 point Dow is not out of the cards, and if the derivative market tanks, perhaps even lower. Watch the market closely and prepare to sell if things look bad. Monday will tell us a lot.

3)Josh Duggar- The hypocritical ass got caught AGAIN doing something very NOT Christian when it came out that he had not one, but two, open accounts with hacked site Ashley Madison. He does know that the Bible is really explicit about adultery right? I am so sick of Christians who seem to constantly be screaming about abortion (which is not forbidden in the Bible anywhere) and gay people (which is mostly from Leviticus and the works of Paul) yet somehow miss the big picture like being nice to people, feeding the poor and NOT doing things like killing doctors or sleeping with their neighbors. You people should be reading that book a lot better than you have doing.
2)Jared Fogle- Subway's former spokesperson had a really bad week when he was arrested for not only possession of child porn but for underage sex, aka statutory rape, as well. He will be sentenced to five to twelve years, assuming the judge goes along with the plea deal which he doesn't have to, has lost his job with Subway forever and is going to get divorced and lose custody of his children. Hope it was worth it loser. Subway's slogan "eat fresh" takes on a whole new meaning now. Might I suggest "the only thing young and virgin here is our olive oil."
1)Hillary Clinton- They writing may be on the wall that she is sinking ship and I for one couldn't be happier. Never mind the constant GOP attacks, most of which are stupid and petty, she is doing all the damage to herself. Her email controversy is Swiftboating all over again as she has handled it so poorly from day one. However, unlike the John Kerry hits, she may have actually committed a crime here, one that has sent lesser people to jail and ended the careers of Sandy Berger and General Petreaus. In the midst of this she has joked about it, evaded questions and, even though Tom Brady was being racked across the coals for destroying his phone, which made him seem guilty even if he wasn't, she did the exact same thing with her server. Who exactly is advising her? She also this week failed miserably to turn a meeting with BLM into a campaign win instead coming across as cold and unfeeling, which makes me wonder why is the black community still so behind someone who will do NOTHING for you once in office, but Sanders continues to lag behind in the minority vote? The worst of this week wasn't reported on any newscast because it would seem like a hit piece. I spent the last week pouring over videos of Hillary in Iowa to confirm what I have heard from my sources within the government that tell me she is one mean son of a bitch. Apparently, according to what I have heard first hand, anyone who gets a secret service assignment with her sees it as a punishment as she is demanding and cruel. Just what I want in a President. So I went and looked at the videos from Iowa and damn if they don't seem right. She ignored the most gimme questions from the press like "Are Iowa apples better than NY?" She pretended not to hear it. She looked bored for a lot it and keep disengaging from voters as Bill Clinton kept shmoozing, which is why he won two times and she seems to be headed to the exit. She even hid from the public at one point behind a black curtain in a ballroom. I do not like this woman and it has nothing to do with her sex or her affiliation. It's her attitude which I see as phony, condescending and bitchy. I would have supported Liz Warren over her any day. So congratulations Hillary Clinton for proving my instincts right about you and that I want you nowhere near the high office of President. You are indeed douchebag of the week.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

I am officially sick of the whole Hillary email thing. I hate the fact that this is the top story every day. I hate the fact that Hillary seems to be playing fast and loose, idiotically joking about it, which is making it worse. I hate the press for refusing to do their jobs and investigate this story better. And I am sick to death of the Republicans trying to milk this for all they can. Right now, this appears to be a demonstration about how dysfunctional our government is as no one investigating this seems to know what the word 'classified" means.
First off, how stupid is it to retroactively turn something classified? Once it's not classified, it might as well be a tweet because it is out there forever then. At least two of these allegedly classified emails everyone is screaming about were released by the State Department, to the PRESS, about the whole Benghazi nonsense. So since when did the local newscast get higher security clearance than the former First Lady?

A lot of this is inter-agency crap about differing levels of classification that each has. Anyone who knows anything about government, like me, knows that different agencies might as well be different countries as all have different operating systems with some not even compatible with one another requiring lots of extra work and money. But streamlining anything in government is akin to lifting the sun with your bare hands.

The problem with all of this is how Hillary is handling this which is par for the course as she seems incapable of handling scandal in the same way her husband did. He oozed charm while she just oozes. Much like her terrible "what difference does it make" comment on the Benghazi non-scandal, she is doing the exact same thing here, which is doing everything to make her look guilty even if she isn't. I don't know what the truth is but retroactive classification is a real thing and if that is the case then most of this case of nothing more than political hot air, albeit one sinking her campaign right now.

Meanwhile, other much bigger stories are happening. One of the biggest is yet another flare up on the North Korean border as they just launched a missile at the south in a tit for tat spat which started after two South Korean soldiers were killed and resulted in them activating loud speakers promoting propaganda for the first time in years. Kim Jung Un had a fit and now that area is inching closer to war. Now there is no need to panic form this yet as this happens with alarming regularity but the boy king is definitively unstable and who knows what kind of miscalculation he could make.
The Dow is down almost 300 points today as consumer buying craters, China continues to lose market value and the Fed hints at a interest hike next month. Anyone familiar with the market will notice an eerily similar downward trend that has been seen in 1929, 2000 and 2008. You all know what happened in those years. Retail spending hit an eight year low, looking very 2007 all of a sudden. Even the pundits from Bloomberg and CNBC are starting to signal the panic button that the good times may be just about over. Differing attitudes towards things like the death cross and Dow theory have lit up the economic sites, but it seems to be a good bet that we may see a major correction of out own, perhaps as soon as September, which historically is a very bad month for the Dow. Be warmed that if you have stock, be prepared to dump all of it should the market start sinking fast which it could at any minute now.

On top of all this, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has resigned today, calling for snap elections that could make him stronger if he wins, or send the country into a tail spin if he loses to someone who opposes the recent Greek bailout deal. This is not helping the world economic plan and again why the Chinese and Dow are both not doing well today.
Recent polls show Trump ahead of Hillary in some states like Florida and Ohio which also means less than nothing as attack ads and debates will shape those polls better when they happen and that's not until next year. We don't even know who the candidates will be, although Trump looks like he might make it while Hillary may not last the year. Will it be Bernie or Biden at that point? Who knows and that is why any poll you see should be taken with a grain of salt. What isn't in question is that Scott Walker is falling further and further down the hole as his idiotic ideas have not captured the GOP imagination. One poll today had him at 3%, tied with Chris Christie. Ouch. That does not bode well for the one time front runner. Even Fiorina looks to be out of luck on the next debate as her poll numbers, while better than before the debate, still won't crack three percent, leaving her on the lurch for the next debate. Christie polls slightly better but he may be out by next week so who knows.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Two weeks after the Republican debate and near constant talk about Hillary's emails have taken their toll and a lot of people are reeling right off the page. Trump continues to rise and some pundits have seriously deluded themselves that he can win now. They seem to be forgetting that few Hispanics are going to vote for this guy, especially after his laughable immigration program was unveiled, which means he cannot win in a general election.
We get so caught up in national polls and popularity contests that we forget that the electoral college negates all of that and the race will come down to a handful of states which are Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. The rest are fairly solid one way or another and regardless who the candidate is, minus some earth shattering revelation weeks before the election for either side, those states are going red or blue 100% of the time. PA is a lost cause as they haven't gone red since Reagan and both Florida and Ohio lean blue, but if the election is close, could be stolen just like 2004 was. Either way, Hispanic votes may be the win or lose ratio for both and if the election isn't close, then it can't be stolen without a lot of red flags going up to an already distrustful public. If that's the case, the democrats will win again and by larger numbers than the pundits suggest.

Thus we have Trump's outrageous, impossible plan to fix the illegal immigration problem. He'd deport them all, build a huge wall, cut off payment to Mexico by illegals, stop corporations from hiring legal aliens over citizens and alter the Constitution to end anchor babies. The only thing I like in all of that is ending the hiring of legal aliens over citizens as I have seen that first hand and how it destroys the labor market and wages. Other than that, none of his ideas are feasable.
Better border security is always a good idea but we also can't have the Berlin wall there either with mine fields, guard dogs and machine guns. That is a public relations nightmare especially when video escapes of border guards gunning down children which would inevitably happen.

We can't deport 11 million people for lots of reason. One is price as they estimate it would cost $200 billion and I feel that it way lower than what it would actually cost as they would have to put all these people somewhere while they deport them and we do not have anywhere near that capacity, unless the rumored FEMA camps do exist in mass numbers which would require them to explain WHY they have all these camps they have denied as a conspiracy theory. Two is will as again video of children being torn away from their home will not make people happy with government and may incite riots from all sides.

Cutting off payments home, which total around $25 billion per year, would bankrupt Mexico and cause even more illegal immigration. Finally, changing the Constitution is not going to happen as three quarters of Congress and three fourths of state legislatures are not going to vote for this anytime soon so that is simply a pipe dream.

Like a lot of Republican ideas, this one sucks. Scott Walker unveiled his health care plan and, as an expert on this subject, I laughed out loud as to how stupid it was. His plan to give people blocks of money to pay for health care would be half of what is needed to buy insurance today, and does nothing to slow out of control drug costs which is the big reason prices are spiking right now, not Obamacare, which is getting the blame. His plan, like his candidacy, is terrible and explains why his numbers are going south quick.
Speaking of going down hard, joining Rick Perry on that slow slide to irrelevancy, two of the worst governors are falling on hard times. Mystery Presidential candidate Bobby Jindal hasn't been seen in so long his face should be on a milk carton. His time is just about done sources say as his money has dried up stat. Another unpopular governor, Chris Christie, is rumored to be thinking about quitting as early as the end of the month. His idiotic ideas have been ridiculed, and rightfully so and his poll numbers have plunged to below the margin or error so technically he could be at zero.

The guy doing the worst is stunningly no longer Jim "Who the hell is that?" Gilmore but possibly closeted gay candidate Lindsey Graham (if he's not gay I would be shocked) who now polls around .8%. Yuck. Herpes polls better.

The GOP is struggling, Trump is surging and may get the nomination. In a general election however, he is going to lose and lose badly to whoever runs against him.
Hillary is running terrible ads in NH right now which basically are sob story bull about her poor parents and upbringing. I DON'T CARE! What are you plans for anything because you have been infuriatingly vague about that. You know why Bernie is gaining on you? Because he's not running ads taking about his past but about our future. Learn from that or lose badly which appears to be where you may be headed.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Lately, there have been a lot of news following the shooting of unarmed black men across the nation and with good reason. Our police force cannot go one day without several new stories describing some douchebag thing some pig did to what is almost always a minority. As a result, the black community is screaming RACISM! at the top of their lungs and I, for one, can hardly blame them. The problem with this is is police brutality is not just a white on black crime no matter how the media attempts to spin it. People of all races and sexes are dying at the hands of cops and the sooner we get to realize that, then and only then, will change happen. I feel racism is not the main reason for a lot of these shootings. It's a fact that too many black men are seen as criminals, because let's also face facts, statistically, young black men find themselves in far greater trouble than all other races combined. When you keep arresting black guy after black guy, you are going to start seeing ALL black men as trouble. Just ask any Arab in the airport.
The real reason is there are far too many police that never should have been a cop in the first place. But due to tests that all but guarantee the best and brightest fail, and a desire to hire soldiers with little to no training in police tactics, has led to a thug force riddled with terrible police. And it has to stop because eventually the police are going to go way too far one day and pay a lethal price for their idiocy, causing the deaths of cops that are good at their job along with the bad ones. The black community has all but given up on the local police force and that is having devastating effects on their community, causing a huge spike in crime in places like Detroit, Baltimore and Chicago to name a few.

Here's the rub: the media is all but ignoring non-black deaths, most likely for the fear the establishment has for the above paragraph. What happens when everyone gives up on the police? Will anarchy over take us like the inner city is going through? Or, more likely, will we demand more from our police, including greater accountability, cameras on every cop and an end to the wall of silence the police have for each other?

Here is a case that has gotten zero national press and that is the assassination of Zac Hammond, a white 19 year old, during a minor drug bust by the police in, wait for it, South Carolina. Can we come to the conclusion that Southern police forces have not changed much since the days of In The Heat Of The Night? And if that is the case WHY?
Police say he was driving his car right at a police officer who then fired to "protect his life." That bit is getting old because the autopsy show he was shot in the back at close range twice over a small bit of pot. Nobody should die over that regardless of race, especially not for ten grams of weed and a mysterious white powdery substance that may have been planted.

The dashboard camera video has not been released, the officer not charged in this obvious murder and the MSM has said zilch about it. If Hammond was black you can bet this would have been wall to coverage with Al Sharpton, Black Lives Matter and everyone else wanting their five minutes of fame plastered all over the airwaves. Hammond is dead and no one cares and that is why I do NOT care for Black Lives Matter. Those lives do matter as much as anyone, but so did Zac Hammond who fell prey to the same nonsense that is killing the black community. Don't you think more people would pay attention if you broadened your horizons to include all races?
Witnesses are claiming that the drugs found may have been planted and that officers "high fived" the corpse after shooting him. EEWWW! Again, where is the outrage? I will give Black Lives Matter some credit for highlighting this on their Twitter feed, showing that some in that group see the bigger picture. But more has to be done because our populace is being overrun by thug cops with no regard for human life. Not all cops are bad, most I think do a fine job. But these rouges are destroying everyone's credibility and the longer you defend them from prosecution, the worse things will be for all down the road.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Hillary had a terrible week. Her email scandal, if it is indeed that, is dragging her numbers down to such an extent that the establishment is getting really worried about Bernie Sanders being the next President. She had a flame out on Twitter with yet another candidate who doesn't understand how the Internet works. How is it that a guy that looks like he doesn't even own a computer is more computer savvy than Clinton's interns? This explains why she has now gone with a Bernie-lite like approach with student loans (although Bernie's is far better) which is helping her outreach but is it too little too late? Let us see those runner ups on a slow news week.
10)Kelly Osbourne- I never liked her as I have a particular disdain for untalented hacks who get by solely because their parents are famous. What exactly has she done in her "career?" She put out one lackluster album, appeared on Fashion Police because of a blink and you'd miss it fashion career, and made a few quest appearances on shows outside her awful reality program. That's it. What makes her qualified to do anything? I was really unhappy with her after she quit Fashion Police over a very NON-racist comment her co-host Giuliana Rancic made about singer Zendaya's dredlocks. Now Kelly Osbourne got burned by that same PC bull during an appearance on the View this week where she accurately made the comment that if we get rid of all Latinos who will clean our toilets? Like it or not, that is an accurate statement. She didn't say ALL Latinos clean toilets, but if someone is, chances are they are Latino. Because of this, allegedly, Rosie Perez quit, although there is some doubt as to the veracity of this claim. Either way, Osbourne got it from all sides meaning one should be careful of the hand that feeds you if you bite it and boy did she bite it this week. Please, just go away Kelly.

9)Ikemefuna Enemkpali- Good Lord what a name. This guy could quite possibly be the stupidest man alive this week. Over a six hundred dollar debt, this third string linebacker for the Jets, broke the jaw of their starting quarterback. He's out for most if not all of the season and Ike was fired. The messed up part is that the Bills picked him the next day. What does it take to get fired and stay fired in some professions in this country? Most of us can lose our jobs for being a minute late for work.

8)Alcee Hastings- Just to prove Democrats are not always the best candidate for the job I give you this loser from Florida. Seems one of the state Representatives not only won't vote for the Iran deal, he has also introduced a resolution authorizing war against Iran. WTF? Does this moron know that doing this will end in a nuclear war as every war game ever conducted has shown? Why is it, across the planet, some the stupidest people are in charge?
7)Ted Wells/ Roger Goodell- These two had really bad weeks. Brady got his day in court and the judge seemed less than enthusiastic with the NFL over all of this. People analyzing the proceedings say Goodell came across as petty and vindictive with little to no reason for his punishment and very little evidence of wrongdoing. Regardless of how this plays out, Goodell harmed his reputation with this. On top of all of that, Ted Wells is getting sued for his indictment of Richie Icognito, in last year's bulling scandal, who's attorney says both reports show a clear bias against the accused and was hardly impartial. Again, why do the dumbest people seem to be in charge of everything lately?

6)Ferguson- Black people rioted again in the town of Ferguson for no actual reason. Protests broke out over the one year anniversary of the death of Mike Brown, in which evidence seemed to clear Officer Darren Wilson of wrongdoing, but by which the community doesn't believe it. Real progress has been made over the last year including the firing of a lot of community leaders, replaced by black people in their place, and cameras on every cop in town. Yet the protests want an end " to institutionalized racism," but with no clear demands how to accomplish such a lofty goal, meaning it's Occupy Wall Street all over again. You may have a point but you also have to have clear and reasonable demands and cannot, repeat, CANNOT, burn down your city every time something doesn't go your way.

5)Rick Perry- This might be the first casualty of the GOP presidential race as his numbers have dropped to less than 1% and is rapidly running out of money so fast he has stopped paying a lot of his support staff. And he is from Texas which is the money pipeline for Republicans. Ouch. To be fair, he never had a real chance as he never recovered from his attempt in 2012. Oops.
4)Rand Paul- The more I hear from this lunatic, the less I like him. The funny part is America agrees as his latest numbers from polls like Fox News have him falling to the bottom of the pack, joining a lot of others which I will get into later, at a whopping three percent. To quote Planes, Trains and Automobiles: "You're going the wrong way. You're going to kill someone." This week, he had the balls to say rich people are rich because they work harder than poor people. Almost everyone wealthy, and I mean really wealthy, inherited their money which required zero effort while the majority of us work sixty hour work weeks for crap pay. The left let into him and the right even held their nose up to that statement. Way to join Rick Perry through the exit door. Your advisers suck and had you run like Trump is, you could have been the front runner. Far right nonsense will get you nowhere fast except with a loud, vocal minority of your own party. It won't win you Presidential elections as the past thirty years have shown.

3)MSM- These dinosaurs are still saying Bernie and Trump can't win, even though both are rising in the polls, are attracting tens of thousands of supporters and are speaking a similar message to the disenfranchised crowd which is now a huge majority of America. It should be telling to the Republican party that Trump is definitively NOT anti-gay and I still believe giving lip service about being anti-abortion, and yet he continues to climb. Why? Because the average Republican doesn't care about either. They want jobs and a better economy to which 95% of the party has no clear ideas. At least with Trump, they have hope a business man might do better than the incompetent boobs they have been electing for decades now with nothing to show for it. And Bernie is gaining real momentum. He is ahead in NH by 6, 17 in MA and in the newest poll, over 50% now in Iowa. He has gotten so big even the MSM has had to cover him, usually prefaced with the "he can't win mantra." Some, like the newspaper The Guardian, downplayed a recent Sanders event in which they said over 15,000 people showed up. Other wrote 20,000. The official number was 28,000, a far cry from some publications. Why? The establishment doesn't want either and they will do anything to keep it Bush versus Hillary which at this stage of the game, seems very unlikely. Do better guys or sink further into irrelevance.

2)Republicans post debate- A few people like Trump, Carson, Cruz and Fiorina did very well post debate. The rest, not so much. Bush and Walker have fallen to single digits, nine and six percent, showing that the debate did not do them any favors. Rubio has curiously fallen to four percent, meaning the GOP may be more ready for a black candidate than a Hispanic one. Lindsay Graham and Jim Gilmore have such low scores they do not even register. Chris Christie should start deciding what post political career he should have because not only is he not going to win the Presidency, he won't be governor past the next election either.
1)Hillary Clinton- Her numbers continue to fall as the most political savvy out there see her as a phony and a corporatist. She tried to emulate Bernie this week with some sort of free community college plan but is far weaker than the one Sanders offers who his has a way to pay for it through a Wall Street tax while Hillary has nothing. Then she tried to be cute with an emoji contest about student loans that, as anyone with a brain could have seen, ended up looking trivial and out of touch. She is still reeling from the email scandal with no resolution possibly until January which means not only will this haunt her through four debates but could tank her chances at the Iowa caucus. Even if she did nothing wrong, which is entirely feasible considering how many are still crying about Benghazi, this could kill her chances at getting the nomination. The party has moved further to the left. Fight against it at your own peril. So congratulations Hillary, you are indeed douchebag of the week.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Before we start with what may be an epic fall by the democratic front runner, let's take a quick look at the economy. In short, it sucks. Many an investors has began to sound the alarm bells about the emergence of another Hindenberg Omen (which lately has been a dud the last five times it showed up) and now the Death Cross. This, combined with a second straight day of a Chinese currency devaluation, has driven down the market in heavy trading, although it has risen steadily since midday, only down 54 points and we can all guess why it is going up when it really shouldn't be. All together now: IT'S RIGGED!The Death Cross is described below from Bloomberg.com

That’s what technical analysts call it when the 50-day moving average
falls below the 200-day mean, a formation that was achieved today as the
gauge declined for the eighth time in nine days. The pattern is
commonly interpreted as a signal price momentum is fizzling out.

“If you don’t make any upside progress, the moving average will start to
flatten and eventually turn down,” Jonathan Krinsky, chief market
technician at MKM Holdings LLC, said by phone. “There are fewer and
fewer stocks holding up the market, and that’s generally not a good
thing.”

What this means is that fewer and fewer companies are able to use stock buybacks to grow stock prices as the prices have hit a ceiling for what they able to afford. In other words they have literally priced themselves out of business. Awesome.
There are a lot of reasons to worry but as external forces control the market rather than vice versa, as seen by today's inexplicable Dow recovery, who knows when the bottom will fall out. Keep a close watch if you have a huge stock portfolio so you do not get burned.
On to the main story which is Hillary facing problems from within and from outside her campaign. Bernie Sanders is looking like a real threat, now AHEAD of Hillary in NH 44-37 according to a new Boston Herald poll and has doubled his polls in Iowa. He is also attracting huge crowds and may be collecting far more money due to social networking, which may replace old style media and SuperPacs as the best way to raise money in the 21st century. Thank you Facebook.

Although she is still way ahead in the national polls, that may not be the case for much longer depending on how this whole email scandal works out. A gift for the GOP as this may finally be the nail in the Hillary coffin and not some wild Benghazi bullshit thing, Hillary may be in real trouble. It is alleged that she sent along several emails of a classified nature through her unsecured private email account: a misdemeanor but still a crime. It brought down General Petreaus and Sandy Berger before her. Even worse, two allegedly were of the highest classification level.

Now let's also be clear. This could be nothing more than GOP smokescreen nonsense as these guys cry WOLF with alarming regularity. The number of emails that were a problem have dropped from four to two, suggesting the inspector general cannot count. The FBI continues to say Clinton is not part of the probe meaning they could be focusing on staff who screwed up and not her. Until more comes out it's all guess work, but correct or not, it's affecting her campaign as her negative numbers continue to climb.
She only has one real opponent and that is Bernie Sanders. The other three running for the democratic spot all poll around 1% meaning my prediction that Martin O'Malley waited way too long to enter the race was spot on. He has gained zero traction as Bernie has all the momentum right now. Even if Joe Biden enters late, he'll have an uphill battle as well. If Hillary continues to falter, or it comes out that she lied about any of Emailgate, her campaign may come to a screeching halt.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

I've officially seen it all now. I have spent the last few days pouring over hundreds of articles, thousands of comments and reached a startling conclusion: you're pissed! Good. It means some of you out there are actually paying attention. Even the most crackpot lunatic from either side have started to see reason as the establishment desperately tries to keep their narrative going with lesser and lesser success.
A quick side note before I delve any further into the occurrences in GOP land and Ferguson and that is yesterday I spent most of the day warning people NOT to buy stocks as the stock market raced upward for terrible reasons. Almost all of the large hedge fund managers were saying it was a dead cat bounce and anyone buying energy stocks, which experienced a one day rally as predicted, were going to get burned. Today's stock market plummeted as energy stocks dropped again as China devalued it's currency, another desperate attempt to save their failing economy. The fact that Caterpillar stocks went up as well, totally due to stock buybacks, shows how devoid the market is from reality. The point is I was right about the market yesterday and many are seeing a real possibility for a major downturn soon. The market for the last six weeks have eerily resembled the 2008 market right before the big crash. So be warned if you have stock to watch the market closely and sell if things start to look sketchy.

Back to the story at hand. This week saw the implosion of the establishment GOP and Black Lives Matter. These two represent the far right and far left and proof America has had it with both. Now to be fair, Black Lives Matter has a point while the establishment Republican party is just evil. But both have horribly misjudged their audience and as a result face extinction.
Let's start with Ferguson and Black Lives Matter. They both did not have a good week with even many a black person saying ENOUGH! Ferguson erupted again on the one year anniversary of Mike Brown for what can only be described as absolutely no good reason. Black Lives Matter was there along with their idiotic hijacking of a Bernie Sanders rally (Really? WTF? Did you have nothing better to do that day?), seriously damaging their creditability to Occupy Wall Street levels. What exactly are you guys protesting at this point because you message appears to be non-existent?

Occupy Wall Street fizzled because they had Zero concrete demands. The same can now be said for Black Lives Matter. All I heard from their spokespeople was the want as end to "institutionalized racism." Great. How? Just like the Republicans all I hear is silence when that comes up. Here's a list of some specific demands you should be making:

End the Drug War
Demand more policing of bad neighborhoods
Have every cop in the country wear a camera
Demand accountability for cops found being racist
End bad cop swaps from prescient to prescient, molester priest style.

These are just a few ideas but asking to end racism isn't going to happen unless you have ideas HOW to end racism. And let's be clear, black people have to take some responsibility for the epic crime rates in their community. What purpose was served by looting Ferguson again? How did that help you? The white man is not killing black people anywhere the numbers they do to each other. That has to stop.
The fact that blacks are being seen more and more as mindless savages is making already slightly racist white people much more racist. Oath Keepers, armed to the teeth, descended on parts of Ferguson which is SO provocative but at the same time understandable. I don't agree with it but I get why some of the less stable are going to start seeing black people as the enemy.

If the black community doesn't get a handle on the problem, they are facing a dim future and almost certainly walled off areas that might as well be a prison. Think Gaza for black people. If you don't think that can happen here guess again. I do not want to see that happen but even the most leftist person is starting to see real hate for Black Lives Matter for what is starting to appear to be more anti-white than anything.

Then we have the other side where Bill Maher and Rush Limbaugh both went off on Fox News for the terrible debate. Those two being on the same page will never happen again so relish in it now. Fox News was seen across the board from non-MSM sources as being very biased against Trump and threw softballs at almost everyone else. They didn't ask one question on things even Republicans care about like jobs and the economy. NOT ONE! And people noticed.
Even after Trump insulted Megyn Kelly (and not all women as the press keeps trying to sell to us), his numbers went up. You know why? Because most people saw the debate and Frank Luntz's laughable focus group afterward as pure theater and not even real good theater either. It was so obvious to even the dumbest person that you have to wonder if the powers that be have gotten lazy. The other reason is that Trump, for all his faults, is still the GOP's best candidate. He is their best candidate because he has done what no one has done in that party for a long time: he's moved away from the far right and towards it at the same time. A real good politician knows he can't win an election unless he appears to be both moderate and extreme. Bill Clinton was the master of that. Trump is proving to be quite good at it as well.

Trump has latched on to the extremists of the party with his "build a wall" mantra. He latched on the a huge sum of the party that HATES trade agreements, something not one of his opponents agrees with. He's exposed the hypocrisy of being beholden on to corporate interests and big donors like the Koch brothers. He is uniting the party with a lot of ideas they like while Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Rick Perry are on life support. Perry looks to be stuff on a rock as he has run out of money to even pay his staff anymore. Paul and Christie moved WAY too far to the right to even be considered at this point and Perry was never going to recover from his run last time. Oops!

Trump is dangerous because he is both celebrity and truth teller to a certain extent. He may not have too many concrete ideas (although his idea to sell insurance across state lines is a good one), but he still towers above the rest of the pack who appear as children next to him.
The same goes for Hillary who may be in real trouble. Her numbers continue to shrink in NH and Iowa and Bernie Sanders is attracting crowds bigger than ALL of the other candidates combined! He got 28,000 in Portland, with 9000 outside who couldn't get in and 27,000 in LA with thousands more outside again. My sources tell me people are going to be shocked by how much Bernie Sanders is raking in from small donations only when it comes out in October. He may actually have a chance after all, especially after Hillary desperately tries to court democrats increasingly souring on her.

Bernie picked up his first endorsement from a national nursing union, which is telling as it is comprised of 90% women. Polls say that while Hillary has a commanding lead, many are still undecided and may flip if the debates go as badly for her as I think they will. Go Bernie. We need you bad.

If we could have a Trump/Sanders contest I will be the happiest man alive. If Sanders wins, we may actually get a better world. If Trump wins, who knows. I do know he'll be better than anyone else the GOP is trotting out. And that should tell you how far the GOP has fallen if that is the case.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

I love how people say the debate asked "tough questions" to everyone, but it was clear from the get go that Fox News had it in for Trump. As for the others, most of the questions were fairly softball, incomplete or just plain butt kissing. Fox News lost a lot of respect from regular viewers and the fact that ordinary people are catching on to how rigged our election process gives me hope for the future. Trump may be a terrible candidate, but it says loads when we all see that the rest of the GOP hopefuls are worse. Let's see those runner ups for which there had to be 11 again this week.
11)Fantastic Four- I am a big fan of the Fantastic Four comics. The sad part is that the previous three films, one never released, were terrible. They failed to understand any of the characters and really screwed up Dr. Doom. Now comes a new one, with a questionable cast, an untested director and a studio known for royally fucking this franchise up. The latest is no exception. Dark, dull and possessing terrible effects, this latest entry cratered in the box office pulling in $26 million stateside and roughly $38 million overseas. Considering the budget was $120 million and will need to get back double that to break even, the prospect of a sequel to this bomb is unlikely. Thank God. The writing was on the wall when Marvel ended the Fantastic Four series, not wanting to give any extra ammo to this disaster.

10)Brent Farley- The world's dumbest bounty hunter really stepped in it this week when he attempted to arrest a fugitive in Oklahoma wanted on drug charges. What dumbass didn't know was the house he was at belonged to the local police chief. Guess who got arrested and isn't even a licensed bounty hunter?

9)Black Lives Matter- These idiots are really getting on my nerves. This week, two white teens were killed by police in questionable fashions. Where was the media on this? Busy covering another black teen killed by cops that's where. Now this black kid does deserve all the attention he gets because he was unarmed even if he was busy destroying a car dealership for some unknown reason. This is why All Lives Matter is more important that just Black Lives Matter. People of all races are being killed and this needs to be addressed. It's not all about race. To make matters worse some racist douchebags from the group stormed the stage during a Bernie Sanders rally, disrupting the whole thing and caused Bernie to leave without uttering a word. Shameful.

8)TPP- This week talks broke down in Hawaii, sending the TPP to it's grave for now. Canada didn't like some part that helped Mexico and not them, New Zealand didn't like something that helped Australia and no one liked the new drug prescription plan that would triple their health care costs. There is little chance this will be resurrected any time soon, especially during an election year so who ever the next President is will get a say in it's revival which means only Trump and all democrats other than Hillary have condemned this. Good. And people wonder why Trump is winning.
7)Paul LePage- One of the country's worst governors got smacked in the face so hard you would have thought he lost all of his teeth. After showing a complete lack of understand over how government works, Captain Dumbass let almost 70 new laws go into effect that he thought he was vetoing but in actuality was letting them become law. He tried to use a pocket veto to let them expire, unaware that only works if Congress is not in session, which it was. He vowed to veto them anyway. Too bad for him as the State Supreme Court upheld the new laws saying that the governor has no power to stop it and he should have known better. Ouch! Democrats passed a lot of laws this way that had no chance otherwise. Stephen King must be laughing his ass off over this as he HATES this guy.

6)Chuck Schumer- Not one of my favorite democrats by any means, this ass decided to side with the Jewish lobby in voting against the Iran deal, which is odd as this all but guarantees the possible annihilation of Israel should this deal fall through and war happen instead. This deal is the best, ONLY option we have. Stop pretending otherwise.5)Caitlyn Jenner's show- After all of the fanfare, shock and novelty has worn down over Bruce Jenner becoming a woman, the public has said in one loud clear voice that this new show sucks. Ratings have nose dived since it's wan opening, with critics calling it epically dull because Jenner is kind of wet blanket and always has been. No one was watching the Kardashians for him and it shows.

4)Ken Paxton/Kathleen Kane- The AG of Texas was arrested this week on fraud charges and Kathleen Kane the AG of PA was also arrested for leaking info about a rival to the press. So a Tea Party idiot and a clueless Democrat show what most of us already know: both sides suck. Paxton is far worse trouble as he faces hundreds of years behind bars for what he did while Kane will most likely just lose her job. I think very little of either.

3)EPA- In the exact opposite of what the EPA is supposed to do, these idiots accidentally dug too far into an old mine and unleashed a torrent of waste water into a local river in Colorado, turning it a bright orange. Way to go guys. Locals are pissed, river guides are out work and the toxic mess is spreading further and further downstream. It is unknown when it will be fixed.

2)Jeb Bush- This idiot was lousy during the debates and pissed off more woman than Trump did (which was more about Megyn Kelly than women in general) by saying that $500 million was unnecessary for women's health costs. The GOP keeps trying to kill of Planned Parenthood with gotcha, heavily edited videos and ignoring the fact that only 3% of operations goes to abortion and the rest go to keeping poor women healthy. The GOP is not female friendly.
1)Fox News- Wow, did that debate suck. And not because the candidates are all barely contained parodies of themselves but for setting up Trump from the first question. All of Trump's questions were really hard hitting, with lot's of details, while the others got softball or incomplete questions. Why ask Walker about his horrible job creation numbers without providing a little more context as to how bad it is, not to mention his state's economy in the crapper? And did we really need Bush to answer about Iraq again? He's already messed that one up, so why give him a chance to recover unless that's what you wanted? And what was up with that focus group afterward which slammed Trump, contrary to every other poll taken? Even right wingers like Breitbart.com, WND and Rush Limbaugh slammed Fox News for their handling of Trump and rightfully so. It was a clear hatchet job and may have inadvertently made him even stronger. I see no sign his comments about Kelly have hurt him at all, with many agreeing that she kind of sucked that night and was obviously biased. So congratulations Fox News, you are indeed douchebag of the week.